The great Spanish Mystic, reformer and founder of the Discalced Carmelites, Saint Teresa of Avila, wrote a poem that gives great advice for those who struggle with the cares and concerns of every day life.

“Be holy, for I, the LORD, your God, am holy.” Holiness can seem to the casual observer an unobtainable goal, a pursuit so lofty that one might as well be commanded to “stop breathing” or “jump ten feet in the air.”